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ELECTRIC CABLE SUPPORT 0R HANGER. No. 285,327.

Patented Sept. 18

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UNITED STATE ATENT @FFICE.

ALBERT SCRANTON XVEAVER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF AND LUOIUS CHANDLER ANGELL,

OF SAME PLACE.

ELECTRIC-CABLE SUPPORT OR HANGER.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,327, dated September 18, 1883.

Application filed July 25,1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT SORANTON WEAVER, of the city and county of Providence, of the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Electric-Gable Supports ,or Hangers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which IO Figure l is a view of a cable supporter or hanger of my improved kind as it appears before being bent and applied to a cable and its sustaining-wire. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, Fig. 3 an end View, and Fig. i a transverse and median section of it, as appliedto a cable and the said sustaining-wire thereof.

A distinguishing characteristic of my cable supporter or hanger is in it being formed in one piece of sheet metal, the body portion A having a short tongue, B, projecting from one end of it, and also a longer and slotted tongue, 0, extending from the opposite end of it, and being flanked by two other and shorter tongues, D D, all being arranged as represented in Fig. 1, wherein the slot of the longer tongue, 0, is shown at .a. The part of the body A that is between the two dotted lines b and c is bent around the cable E transversely, so as to fit closely thereto, the parts d (1 being bent o upward into parallelism with each other, as

shown in Figs. 3 and 4:. Between the portions (1 and (1 so bent up there is arranged a strip, 6, of water-proof material, as vulcanized india-rubber, for instance. Having 5 placed the said strip between the said parts (I and d, the tongue G is to be bent around the supporting-wire F, and is to have the tongue B inserted through the slot a and bent downward upon and against the part d. This having been done, the two tongues D D are to be bent down over the upper edge of the part d and against the outer surface of the said part d in manner as'shown in the drawings. The water-proof strip ewill close the joint between the parts (2 and d and be covered by the tongues G, D, and D, and the cable willbe suspended from the sustaining-wire F.

I do not'claim a telegraph-cable supporter consisting of apiece of sheet metal bent around in the form of a hollow cylinder and radially 5o therefrom, and of one or more hooks and a guard-sleeve, adapted as shown in the United States Patent No. 277,528, as my supporter is made of a single strip of metal and has within it a sealingstrip of waterproof material.

I claim 1. My improved electric-cable support or hanger, made of a single piece of material, and having a slotted tongue, 0, and two shorter tongues, D and D, at one end of it, and at its opposite end a short tongue, 13, all arranged and being for use in manner, with an electric cableand its sustainingfrod, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination ofthejointsealing-strip, as described, with the cable-hanger, substantially as set forth, made of a single piece of material, having a slotted tongue and two shorter tongues at one end of it and a short tongue at its opposite end, arranged and bent 7 in manner essentially as represented.

ALBERT SGRANTON WEAVER.-

Witnesses:

OYRUs W. VAN SLYoK, FERDINAND POTTER, Jr. 

